New Delhi, April 30: Major General C S Nair, the senior most law officer in the Army, will take over as the new Judge Advocate General tomorrow.
Nair will advise Army Chief General V K Singh on all legal issues concerning the force in his capacity as the head of the law branch.
A post-graduate in English and an alumnus of the Kerala Law Academy, Nair was commissioned in the Army Education Corps (AEC) in December 1978.
Before joining the Army, the officer had practised law in the Kerala High Court.
After his pre-commission training in the Indian Military Academy at Dehradun, he served in the Education Corps before being transferred to the JAG?s Department in 1980.
Since then, he has held most of the appointments tenable by an officer of the department.
–Agencies